Richer, Louis (fl. circa 1650) Agreable Conference de Deux Paisans de Saint Oven, & de Montmorency, sur les Affaires du Temps

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Richer, Louis (fl. circa 1650)Agreable Conference de Deux Paisans de Saint Oven, & de Montmorency, sur les Affaires du Temps. Paris: [n.p.], 1649.
Quarto, four parts in one volume, each with its own title page; in later parchment over stiff boards.
Richer published a total of eight parts of these 'mazarinades' between 1649 and 1652 under the Agreable Conference title. They are remarkable for their use of variant spellings to capture the sound of a 17th century rural French patois.
Estimate $1,000-1,200

Collated, complete.

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